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Smoking is (good) for the birds

10,000 Birds

I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. We should return to the issue of plant molecules and the good stuff they can do, vis-a-vis birds.

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Birding the Bamiyan area, Afghanistan

10,000 Birds

As the previous two posts, it is light on birds and birding (basically only at the very beginning of this post). It contains a lot of non-bird photos of this area and ends with some description of my reason for traveling to Afghanistan and how you might support the people there. I will be very happy to provide more details.